And they have every right to do so, 52 10 at home to another SL team, no doubt Wigan are a different class but some of the tackling today was below whats expected at this level.


Lets hope we can learn and improve quickly.

The game was over after half an hour. Is Glover still sticking to the 'we haven't suffered any embarrassments this season' line?

I've been critical of our defence in recent defeats to Leeds and Bradford but today it's hard to be anything other than in appreciation of how good Wigan are!

How many more times are we going to say that.

Summed up perfectly, we played well for 20 minutes then the class started to show, the simple facts are we are a poor side compared to wigan and many other top superleague sides. It will take years to improve to wigans level and it wont happen with this current crop of players. It starts with the coach, bye bye agar if we ever want to be a success.

Taking into account Wigan class, i don't think they had to do anything outstanding to score, notwithstanding Tomkins chip. It was made far too easy with sloppy possession and poor positioning. I would hazard a guess that most SL sides would've beating Trinity today, bar London. The fact it was Wigan shouldn't cloud matters.

What was our % completion rate for the match?
Any team in the RL would lose with such a lousy rate
We have every right to be annoyed tonight

We were in it for 20 minutes or so but when they went up a couple of gears, we were out of the contest.

Hard to fault the effort - the application wasn't always great, but that's the ability level of some of the players we have - there's nothing that RA can do about that.

Not a great start from Lee Smith, but a bit of a big ask to start training mid-week and then show up well against the best side in SL.

In my opinion Wigan just went through the motions. They did not do anything that spectacular with the ball but yet had to much class for us to contend with. It must be great been a Wigan fan knowing that you can play below your usual standard and come away with the 2pts, they are a class team.

Don't know why Kirmond played, obviously not fit. Tim Smith once again got it tough from some individuals, which is a bit of shame. Not his best performance but he played some nice rugby. The ball to Fox was a peach of a pass, shame Fox tried to burn Tomkins for pace on the outside...come on Foxy give your head a shake lad!

Joking aside, I think we keeled over to quickly.

We could have been 20 points up in the first half but due to silly errors wernt the ref did us no favours.In the second half we were dire stood back and watched or waited for the ref to blow instead of getting among them and knock them down and out of stride.I have been more than willing to give this coach a chance but what does he say at half time.Thank god he didnt give the half time talk at waterloo talk about instill pride.

That's exactly it! We aren't any where near as good as Wigan - so to even compete with them we must control our controllables - and that means keeping hold of the ball, getting to a kick and making good distance on it. We were far too guilty of pushing the play, coughing up posession and then spending too long defending - and that's always gonna hurt a side.

Poor game by plenty today - Smith (Tim) didn't fire as I had hoped and I would also (controversially) mention Aiton - he is a little dynamo, but he does not give us anywhere near enough attacking options from dummy half. When he goes, he goes well, but he still doesn't do nearly enough running and his passing game is not as good as other hookers in the comp. Tackles - superb, but is that enough?

Some fantastic displays of genuine sportsmanship from posters on here. Refreshing to see on a rlfans forum

Oh, and Wilkes was shocking when he first came on - coupled with the fact that Amor and Raleigh had good first stints that was a massive backward step!

Bad day at the office - again!

It was a perfect example of the gulf between the top top teams and ourselves. Wigan were better in every facet of the game although that said we didn't help ourselves by making the usual silly errors and going for dumb plays. Then throw in the same defensive deficiencies that persist every game and its becoming tiresome to watch again.